A tour of the Predator films. (Well, 4 of them, plus the B-movie bonus "Without Warning.")

A dive into the medium specific techniques and "language" of comic books.

A dive into Leo Tolstoy's 1878 masterpiece "Anna Karenina."

A look at Opera Orlando's 2024 performance of Robert Xavier Rodriguez's 1991 opera "Frida" about the life of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo

Flashback to a college essay I wrote circa 2000 about William Wordsworth's "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"

Part 1 of a series on Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick," looking at style, structure, and the themes of proto-cosmic horror and nihilism.

A look at the two Dracula films "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992) and "Dracula" (1931), focused on their adaptational choices.

A deep dive into the 2023 film "The Last Voyage of the Demeter," a fantastic horror movie adaptation of "Dracula" that, sadly, bombed.

Part 1 of a look at Dracula in media, starting with Bram Stoker's 1897 novel and Michael Pink's 1996 ballet.

The second in a two-part look at R.F. Kuang's novels Babel and Yellowface and the ways they reflect on each other.

The first in a two-part look at R.F. Kuang's novels Babel and Yellowface and the ways they reflect on each other.

A look at Opera Orlando's 2024 production of "Tosca" with some thoughts on this production in specific and Tosca in general.

A short story of the pissing match between legendary composer Giuseppe Verdi and Prospero Betani, a disappointed and entitled theatergoer.

Launching the Lazarus Music Project, where I find and record lost Western chamber music.

An exploration of the intersection between song lyrics and poetry.

A look back at some of the best books I read in 2019.

Some thoughts on the 2019 "Les Miserables" production in Orlando's DPAC, with a focus on the show as an adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel.

First of a two-part series about the creation of my band Beemo's fourth studio (and first full length) album.

Second in a two-part series about the creation of my band Beemo's fourth studio (and first full length) album.

A brief look at Opera Orlando's 2018 production of "Star Trek: Abduction," adapted from Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio"